The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-27

ed, when she had settled herself, show
much yore pore father did think O. SIGH
pies, but he's gone"
A tear rolled across tho face Of the
pie and fell on the floor. --Arhdnsat
iraUeier.
Should Flirts be Encouraged;
Henrietta sends this startling in
terogatory home 10 this office, inscrib
ed on Scotch-plaid sheet of fanc'
stationery, enclosed in No. 3 liligree
ornamentcd envelope. with 4 cupid sit
ting on the safety-valve of fractured
heart, aud we have no doubt that she i'm
AGNES her question to be a crusher. But
though staggering somewhat under tho
weight of the conundrum, we hurl baci
our answer:
Eyes, by all means flirting should be
encouraged"
We had a young friend once whom
we thought everything of, and he fell {
victim to the wiles of flirt. He wa
blonde, and she was blonde, in e
kingdom by the sea--Baltimore, for in
stance--and the terrible love strokl
which Frustrated him left him, to al
intents and purposes, a mangled, bat
tered wreck on n stormy sea of troub1 r..
He thought all the world OF the blond,
and would sit up all night and spir
stories about her, and extol her fasci
nations, and talk about her eyes, and
lie about her hair, and drvel on con.
corning rosy lips, pearly teeth, match.
less form, ETC., long after the balmy
goddess of slumber has wooed us TO re
pose and attuned our melodioGs olfac
tory organs TO the music of the spheres.
Our friend used to beat his landlady
out OF board bills, and borrow money
to buy opera tickets for his girl and
lafly on Il stick for her little brother. II
was the most compete mash we even
saw, Henrietta, and we have seen quite
a large number of this description; but,
compared to this pyrotechnic display,
they were are all tame and second-clasS
affairs. Well, to make love story in.
terestingly short, she bounced him one
evening, and the jig was up. She jilt!
ed, sacked, mittened and fired him oui
of her affections, with all the Kissing
velocity of an old shoe brush thrown at
n wailng cat. When he came in tina.
night to go to bed, he looked like S
stricken deer a wounded fawn wrestl.
ing with sciatica. For five long weeks he
raved in delirum. Then he recovered,
shook the dust of Baltimore from hi.
heel taps. jumped his board and doc.
tors bills, and aimlcssly wandered t.
Leadville, carrying with him our bes
suit of clothes, six pairs of cotton socks
and tooth brush. ''
Well, he was grub-staked by aphilan'
thropist. struck it rich, opened min
er's supply store, married the daughter
of bonanza king, has two blue-eyed
children and loving wife. The
blonde female bursted up all the heart
furniture she came in contact with, re-
fused about thrty-live splendid offers,
and retired from the business. She
doesn't draw well now. She is faded
and passee. She wanes and wobbles
on the down grade. 1t does us II bush.
ell of good to see her grit her teeth
when the follows, like the Pharisees,
pass by on the other side and give her
a wide berth. She is elected-to stay
at home, and bids fair to make a.
vinegarry an old spinster rs you will
find in days walk.
Yes, on the whole flirting should bt
encouraged 1t certainly saved oul
young Leadvillo friend from fat,
almost too horrible to mention. And
whenever we see young man strug.
Cling in the gill-net of a well-con'
structed, athletic llirt, we fell like say
ing:
STEADY, old boy; you will feel all
the better when you get out. '-TezG'
Sinin0S